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Acer Iconia Tab A510 – Quadcore Android $449

Paul Merak — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:09 +0000

The quad-core Acer Iconia Tab A510 – the ‘Olympic Edition’ – is now on sale, featuring a 9800mAh battery which Acer says will deliver 15 hours of service. The 10.1-inch slate runs Android 4, displayed on a WXGA panel with a sharp 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. Tab A510 has 1GB RAM supporting the CPU [...]

Amazon App Store In-app Purchases

Paul Merak — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:26:14 +0000

A new development has elevated Amazon’s AppStore in functionality to help compete with Google Play and the Apple App Store. Until now, developers peddling their apps through Amazon were unable to offer in-app purchases, but Amazon has now announced an in-app purchasing API, so users can now be purchase content with a single click, whether [...]

Solar-powered Kindle eReader Case

Ashley — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:20:07 +0000

The SolarKindle is a case for the Amazon Kindle eReader featuring a built-in solar panel, reading light and battery. And you don’t necessarily need to have the SolarKindle attached to your device to charge it – just put it somewhere sunny to soak up the rays and it will charge the battery ready for the [...]

Amazon Kindle Fire – Supersized?

Paul Merak — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:04:04 +0000

Looks like the Apple iPad might not be having all the limelight this spring – Amazon is reportedly preparing new formats for its successful Kindle Fire tablet. Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley claims Amazon will release a new generation of 7-inch and 9-inch Kindle Fire tablets. This has LED the financial analysts’ Pacific Crest to [...]

Touch vs Fire

Paul Merak — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:13:25 +0000

The Amazon Kindle Touch is doing well, but for an extra $20 you can get a fourth-generation standard Amazon Kindle Fire, so which is better? At first glance, the single difference between the two is that the Fire features single home button instead of the Kindle’s row of buttons. As for other buttons on the [...]

Amazon Kindle iOS app

Paul Merak — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:08:41 +0000

Amazon Kindle app is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Host of new features have been added. Full-color magazines, text books, newspapers and other periodicals are now supported via Kindle app just like in Amazon Kindle Fire. Single issue or subscriptions can be purchased. Among other features most notable are zoom and pan [...]

Amazon Kindle Fire – Extend Battery Life

Paul Merak — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:44:59 +0000

If you’re the sort of culture vulture who likes to have plenty of apps and books open whilst browsing the web and listening to music in the background, you might find battery life on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire less than spectacular. Amazon promises 8 hours of battery life for Fire, but that’s conservative use, and [...]

Amazon S3 Offers Best Cloud Storage For Business

Paul Merak — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:47:39 +0000

Test results of the various storage providers’ cloud services suggest Amazon offers the best online storage services of any provider. An extensive study examined various online solutions as a primary storage solution, tested their data protection, and assessed their capabilities for disaster recovery. Amazon S3 service came out top. Nasuni provides data protection services valid [...]

Kindle Fire – Browser Accelerator Slows Down Browsing

Paul Merak — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:53:09 +0000

When we reviewed the Amazon Kindle Fire we admired the clever Silk browser, which uses Amazon Cloud Cluster to accelerate downloads by offloading some of the rendering burden from your phone to their remote servers. Yet two weeks after launch, test results indicate Amazon Silk browser runs up to 50% faster with the accelerator feature [...]

Amazon Developing Own Answer To Siri

Paul Merak — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:44:29 +0000

Amazon is a company that isn’t standing still right now. This week saw the launch of its Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch tablets, and Amazon Cloud storage goes from strength to strength. Recently they quietly bought up a speech recognition start-up named Yap, leading industry observers to speculate that Amazon plans to develop their [...]

5 million Kindle Fire for Christmas

Paul Merak — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:00:19 +0000

Amazon pre-order figures suggest they will ship 5 million Kindle Fire units this quarter. Forecasts previously stood at 4 million, and it now seems the tablet could be a runaway success. In comparison Apple shipped 12 million iPad 2 in the last quarter. It is still unclear whether these feverish sales are due to consumers’ [...]

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet – closer look

Paul Merak — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:04:08 +0000

The Amazon Kindle announcement gave some interesting details about the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire will feature a 7″ 1024 x 600 resolution Gorilla glass screen and run on a Texas Instruments OMAP 1GHz dual-core processor, supported by 512MB RAM. The Kindle Fire features 8GB of innerliche storage for all those books, [...]

Amazon Fire sold in Staples and Best Buy

Paul Merak — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:58:42 +0000

Amazon is doing great with preorders of their new Amazon Fire tablet (over 100,000 already). New models of e-ink Kindle tablets will be dedicated for retailers like Staples and Best Buy. Amazon states that 40 percent of shoppers still prefer buying in brick and mortar stores. This is why Amazon decided to also supply stores [...]

Amazon Fire up for preorder

Paul Merak — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:23:55 +0000

Amazon Fire tablet will take the entire tablet industry for a spin. Amazon has priced it at mere $199 hoping to recover the loss of profits by selling books on Kindle bookstore and from other products sold. According to eDataSource there were already 95,000 preorders made. Apple has sold over 300,000 iPads on a launch but [...]

HP TouchPad and other budget tablets

Paul Merak — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:22:03 +0000

The HP TouchPad as we concluded when we reviewed this tablet is a capable 7-inch tablet, but grossly overpriced at $500, even $400. A while ago HP decided to liquidate their stock by letting this TouchPad go for a mere $99. Stocks have depleted as many folks rushed to get their hands on it last weekend. [...]

Amazon tablets sold cheap

Paul Merak — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:28:45 +0000

As predicted Amazon will sell its new Amazon tablets at less than cost price. Pcmag reports that Amazon may sell their new tablets for 20% – 30% below margin. Amazon’s strongest selling point is their vast array of digital content. It would be in Amazon’s interest to undersell all tablet competition in the hope of [...]

Amazon Android Tablet?

Paul Merak — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:27:27 +0000

A lot or rumors showing that there will be a new tablet for Amazon. Some say that it already has kicked in and the maker of the tablet was Samsung. It was also said that the OEM Quanta computers got reports that the new tablet will be revealed at the middle of the year. A [...]

Coby Kyros MID7024 for $172

Paul Merak — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:07:20 +0000

Coby just released the Kyros MID 7024 tablet recently. It is a 7 inch tablet that uses the Samsung S5PV210 ARM Cortex A8 as its processor. The Coby Kyros MID7024 uses the Google Android 2.2 and it seems like a nice tablet. Sadly, the screen resolution is only 800×480 and it is resistive. Coby Kyros [...]

Toshiba 10.1 inch Honeycomb Tablet

Paul Merak — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:11:03 +0000

Toshiba has an up and coming tablet and it is not yet up for pre-orders. It is 10 inch tablet that will run on Android. Now, it has a page on the online retail giant, Amazon. Just earlier this year at the CES, the tablet will contain a 10.1 inch screen. It will have a [...]

iPad Accessories Worth Getting

Paul Merak — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:18:19 +0000

If you have the right accessories your iPad can be a fun useful gadget for many purposes. We will take you through a couple of the most important accessories here in this article although there are many others available. You can get the accessories one at a time or purchase them in groups to save [...]

ELocity tablet ready to pre order

Paul Merak — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:02:38 +0000

Stream TV Networks just made an announcement that it is ready to take pre-orders for the eLocity tablet starting on February 15 from big retailers like Amazon, Tiger Direct, B&H and J&R. The eLocity looks very much like a larger version of the 7 inch tablet that they previously released. The main differences are that [...]

Asus 1005PE now available for purchase at Amazon

Paul Merak — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:06:13 +0000

The Asus eee 1005PE is now available for purchase on Amazon. There are two models for purchase.

1005PE-PU17 with 14 hours of run time for $379.99 [Link]
1005-MU17 with 11 hours of run time for $339.99 [Link]

Specs: Atom N450 processor, GMA 3150 and usual netbook specs.

Read Asus eee 1005PE review

ASUS EEE 1001P – up for sale for 249 Euro

Paul Merak — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:32:48 +0000

Every day, more and more Pine Trail netbooks are either being unveiled or leaked. Now, although the Asus 1001P is yet to made official by Asus, it is already up for sale in Germany for 249 Euros.

Comes with bog-standard Atom N450 (1.66GHz) processor, NM10 chipset, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard disk and 3x USB 2.0 ports. Display is of standard netbook-size –10.1-inch @ 1024x600 pixels.

Runs Windows 7 Starter OS. It is available in two colors: white and black.

[Amazon Germany]

ASUS Eee PC T91MT available for pre-order at Amazon

Twinkle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:10:30 +0000

Multi-touch tablet netbook, the 8.9-inch ASUS Eee PC T91MT is now up at Amazon.com for pre-order. It's being offered at a hefty price tag of $549. With Windows 7 Home Premium as OS, only white model is currently available. The only difference compared to EEE T91 that we see that the RAM and SSD capacity has been doubled (32GB SSD, 2GB RAM versus 16GB SSD, 1GB RAM as in Windows XP version)

AMD Powered MSI Wind U210 now available for pre-order

Twinkle — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:40:00 +0000

The 12-inch AMD powered, Wind U210 by MSI is now there at Amazon.com for pre-order even though Samsung has made it official yet. The MSI U210-006US is priced at $429.99 with free shipping and comes with a 6-cell battery.Specifications:

Athlon Neo MV-40 (1.6GHz) processor
12-inch display
1366 x 768 resolution
ATi Radeon X1250 GPU
250GB HDD
2GB RAM
Wi-Fi (n-draft)
1 HDMI port
3 USB ports

It comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium OS.